A Question Of Life....A Story by Surya May be worthy.. After a terrific dream, Nick wanted to chase the quest. He
started next day following the map he remembered and made his efforts to sketch
it on a paper so that he couldn’t forget it. He reached deep into forest where no path can be seen, only
trees, woods, grass and some animals. He parked his bike and started on foot
holding a map. It is turning dark, Day about to end. Gracefully he met some
tribes, they introduced themselves and followed by Nick. Tribes offered him shelter
and food. Nick had his dinner and felt bored after few minutes. He went for a
walk holding lamp in his hand along with a young man from tribe, Ramit. On their way Ramit was learning about the culture and about
the lives outside the trees. When Nick explained how bored he is in modern
world and their busy lives in blocks there Ramit felt great to be born in a
great civilization deep in forests where people care with heart and live for a
day without a penny satisfying their needs without any greed. They went on talking and there was no sight of their colony
of Ramit. Ramit checked his surroundings and backed few metres but he could see
nothing of his colony then he realized they lost their path. Nick didn’t seemed to be terrified, he was normal but Ramit
was afraid. Okay, they had nothing to do either they have to move on or
stay there till dawn and find the way in morning. Nick opted to move on, anyhow
they can find the route possibly in day. After a long walk they can see a fire from cave. They moved
into the cave. To their surprise there is man in their, Bit of saint character.
He invited them in and offered warmness. They inquired their whereabouts, three of them. Soon they
felt no harm from each other and they were friendly in nature. After a long conversation Ramit slept without a notice, of course
without his conscious he was deep in sleep. Saint noticed something wrong with Nick. He dared to ask
what it is. ‘So Nick, why are you here?’ ‘Just bored of my life. I got a map in my dream so am after
it chasing.’ Hesitantly answered Nick. ‘So you are chasing a quest, I believe. May I ask you what
kind of quest it is?’ saint asked Nick without any look at him. He was busy in
making the wood burn along. ‘I don’t remember. I just remembered a map and am going
after it.’ ‘So you can’t recall what you are chasing right now. Just a
few lines jiggled and trembling on a paper and you are after them and you left
your life for that sole reason.’ ‘See, first thing that I wanna say is, am not happy with my
life am living there. Atleast I got a breakthrough now and If I find treasure,
I will move all of it to city and lead a pleasant life there.’ Saint burst into laughter after nick’s words and asked. ‘What if you don’t find any treasure that can make you
money?’ After a moment of silence Nick opened his mouth and uttered ‘I don’t know then.’ ‘So you are not after the treasure. You are just running
from your unlovable life.’ These words from saint made Nick to think what he is really searching
for. ‘Truth is, yes, am running after Life that many living in
their without any peace, smiling at stupid and dumbest things. Enjoying in
crap. People of today don’t know how to live. They just say that everyday
living of their lives is life. But I didn’t find any peace, inner peace and joy
in it.’ Nick was frustrated on life and bursted out now, saying how troubling
his life is. ‘Ok. I don’t ask about your life in city or in you place.
But for sure my son, I will ask you this. You said your people don’t know how
to live, Then May I ask you what is a life?’ ‘Life--------I don’t know. But what I know is life is worth
living.’ ‘Ok. What is living?’ ‘Living-------hmm……Spending time happily, I guess.’ ‘Ok.What is this word, Happy?’ ‘Happy--------To smile all time’ answered Nick. They both
were deeply involved in conversation. Nick was anxious to know and he desperately
wanted to listen the words of saint. ‘Ok. What is time?’ ‘Time-------------- I don’t know. Well time is ……some say it
can be counted in hours, some say it can be divided into day and night.’ ‘Divided?. Well who is that divided Time?’ ‘We, humans divided Time.’ ‘Hmm…Remember it. I am going to ask you again. Well as of
now, how did humans divided time.’ ‘they separated it into day and night, and in hours 1 to 24.’ ‘Ok what after 24 hours. Is time going to die after 24
hours?.’ ‘How can time die? it repeats every day!.’ ‘Then how can you divide anything that repeats, without
knowing the exact measurement of it.’ ‘It’s a point, yeah it is….But am not capable of answering
your question.’ This conversation turned interesting to Nick. ‘You are not capable of answering it?. Actually truth is you don’t know the answer.
You are following something that you don’t know, then you are fool.’ ‘ Yeah it seems, am a fool….Wait, am I a fool?’ ‘Yeah you are.’ ‘Well let me ask then. What is time?’ ‘Am not finished yet with my questions. But I will return to
it after my questions.’ ‘Han ok. Go on then.’ Saint smiled at Nick. Nick seems to be confused. But Nick is
more interested in his words than any other thing now. ‘How are you alive now?’ ‘Because I eat and breathe.’ ‘Where do they come from.’ ‘Nature of course.’ ‘Remember this word, nature. Where did Nature came from.’ ‘It’s bullshit now. We came from nature.’ ‘Ok. You don’t know about it. Let me ask, What is nature?’ ‘Damn you are a crazy man! Everything we see is nature.’ ‘Ok you are on track now. Where from they came from? How did
they happen? Where are you from? How is this human formed? What makes us
superficial? What makes the rest normal and abnormal?’ Saint asked in an
excited eye. Nick was furious about this, but he thought saint was mad.
Relating everything to nothing. ‘Oh.You gone mad. This is all because of Evolution. Well do
you know about Evolution?’ ‘Well, Charles Darwin. I remembered. Actually am a graduate
from Harvard. But That is of no matter now, it is some years ago.’ Nick was
shocked at his words that he is from Harvard.’Your every question unquestioned has
an answer with every point I asked’ said Saint. ‘Ok but how.’ ‘We are product of evolution. Everything damn thing is.
Humans termed themselves Superficial because they waited for years But no other
animal said their group as Superficial. And after a long wait we declared
ourselves as superficial.’ ‘Ok. But how is it related to my life. My happiness.’ ‘There it comes. We started developing things, we started
creating things. We invented things. We made many achievements. But we lost
dignity to our mother nature.’ ‘But we are humans. We have to do so for our living.’ ‘Well we are homo sapiens a well built and structured mind.
But we are not strong enough as Neanderthals. They lived a life too, a pleasant
life without any pollution of any kind. We humans of modern generation living
most of our lives on decayed matter, spending this time in a s**t we made ourselves.’ ‘Wait …I didn’t get you.’ ‘Let me tell you in brief then. You will find your answers
here. “we
are a product of natural process called Evolution. Evolution is nature and
natural. We have no right to distract or deviate from nature’s laws yet we
dared and made everything possible from impossible. But we are forgetting that
we are on our way to departure from this great and beautiful Nature of our’s.
We live in a day where almost everything depended upon machines, any kind it
may be.
We are fighting from morning to evening just to earn a paper or a coin
which was invented by man. How bullshit it is?. We are respecting those things which
are made by us and waging a war on our fellow beings.
History says Ancient man is more powerful than us. He lived a mighty
life without any caste, creed, sex equalities and inequalities. He ate food and
he slept. He played, he jumped, he even painted to make nature more beautiful
not in terms of destroying it.
We are living in a civilized society with uncivilized maturely grown
blinded eye people. That’s where we are lagging. That’s where we lost.
Time is precious learn to utilize it. Be happy in whatever makes you
happy, you are alive even when you are in a cave without any machine, You are
eating a precious food now, breathing unpolluted air.
Respect and love nature, it gives you treasures. We lost our dignity and
we have to pay for that and of course we are paying now. Ozone depleted I
guess, Antarctica getting warmed, sea level increased. Oxygen polluted. Population
increased, forests decreased. No trees. F*****g point the only way we live
without food and water is Oxygen, where the hell oxygen comes from without
trees. We are upgrading our levels in deforestation now.
So dear. This is not us. Try to be us, humans. We are not superficial
than any other being here, actually no one is. Lion and you share equal rights
to stay and fight. We are unhappy,
unhealthy because we made a mistake and a mistake again to cover the previous
one and it repeated and still going on….This is the only reason we are unhappy. What if we
lived a life as cave man without all
these materialistic pleasures. We would be happy filling our stomachs and
sleeping all night. Being strong.
I asked you to remember me about Time. Time is the only measurement
given from nature. Rest everything, I repeat every f*****g thing is meant for
our convenience. So you will be happy in
your life, if you respect it, love it. Don’t go behind all these materialistic
pleasures. Work hard, fill your soul with smile without harming nature. Art of
living a life and living an artist life is more than anything. So go for it. Find your inner peace in order to
find peace and make peace find you.” This is all it’ Said Saint.. Nick was dumb, he understood nothing. © 2017 SuryaReviews
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